Parliamentary Panels Tackle Key Consumer Issues

• Parliamentary panels are scrutinizing sugar content in baby foods and rising medicine prices.
• DMK leader Kanimozhi chairs the committee on Consumer Affairs, focusing on essential commodities and foodgrain wastage.
• Trinamool Congress leader Kirti Azad heads the committee on Chemicals and Fertilisers, addressing medicine price rise and API production.
• Committees will also examine plastic waste management and fertiliser PSU disinvestment.
• Focus includes consumer rights in banking and modernising Public Distribution System.

Source: The Times Of India, Ndtv